Adjustment to the above (Gabby/Kavina + Tia) ...

Kavina/Gabby will clean up and gather some belongings: peasant outfit, leather armor, shuriken in bandoliers and wrap them in her cloak to create a bundle. ”This is my usual appearance when I am not playing a role. Call me Kavina. What do you think?!” she asks Tia.

She tries to leave the apartment as Kavina in entertainer garb with her bundle. Kavina - what her mother calls Gabriella - tries to extricate herself, but her mother is no less effective at getting what she wants than Tia's friend "Gabby."

Realizing that some battles aren't worth fighting, Kavina accepts that her mother deserves more than a drop in. She is remarkably good at telling stories, stories which Tia find as enchanting as the middle-aged woman telling them. This isn't a bad deal, as her mother is a damn good cook, and whatever she makes will be a lot cheaper (free) and tastier than anything she would get on her own.

Kavina's mom - Silena - has everything she needs for side dishes, but she is a little light on meat. Luckily, the landlord is Hyram Couple, whose butcher shop is below them. Silena doesn't hand Kavina any money, saying that she "worked out an agreement" previously with Hyram. Tia is sent down with Kavina.

That is when it hits Kavina. Kavina doesn't think in terms of exactitudes like addresses, but rather with the more instinctive knowledge of this place or that. Her mother's apartment faces the side street, and the butcher's shop faces the main thoroughfare, and being a main thoroughfare it didn't really hit her ... the address Folco gave her is the same buidling as her mother's!

Add a Pinch of Aldo, and a tall Cup of Meijen ...

Meanwhile, as cosmic luck would have it, they come into the shop of the "Midnight Butcher" - the odd name that the butcher Hyram Coupe has given himself, for he is the only butcher shop that has late hours, despite the curfew. Of course, that has a whole lot of rumormongering that casts Mr. Coupe into a negative light, but everyone within a two-to three block radius .... that which is considered a "safe" run when it is nightime .... is happy that Mr. Coupe has quick-fry cutlets and other types of things available for purchase to deal with the night-munchies or when party supplies get low. And since anyone with a bad idea of what "Midnight Butcher" might mean lives outside of that radius, people talking don't bother all Hyram any.

Well, Kavina and Tia walk into the shop of the Midnight Butcher as there is a row going on.

And who should they see, but Aldo and Meijen and a hirsute, heavily built man in a heated dispute with some incredibly handsome, well-dressed man. The man is Thesing Umbero Ulvauno, a local actor and opera singer of some repute who has let his growing reputation feed his ego to a ridiculous level. He’s a very melodramatic man with a habit of cursing out anyone he sees as an underling, exaggerating how important he is and implying that not immediately acceding to his wishes is a personal affront intended to threaten his career. As it turns out, the extra large turkey that Aldo's mother reserved is exactly the sort he needs for his impromptu performance this evening of The Elopement of the Dowager Princess, which features a scene wherein “the princess and her handsome lover—played by me, of course—flee the city while carrying the king's prize turkey and pursued by the king’s horsemen.”

Aldo and K/G of course have heard of him, both having even seen him in performance. Even Tia, who has a weakness for a good story, hasn't seen him but has heard of him in passing. Only Meijen seems to be clueless as to who this man might be.

When Ulvauno sees that there is some sense of familiarity among Aldo, Meijen, Tia, and the other dark-haired lady that Aldo and Meijen do not recognize, he believes that Aldo has reserved the turkey strictly to vex him, perhaps to aid a rival actor, and is only satisfied with excessive apologies from the PCs and Hyram .... and, of course, capitulation since there are plenty of other meats in the store, and Aldo's parents are likely to only carve up the turkey anyway.

What do you do?